Thursday, March 13, 2014

Mere Mortals is a collection of one-act comedies written by a master of "short form playwriting," David Ives. In this collection, Ives gives us widely divergent situations, from construction workers on a lunch break to mayflies on their first (and last!) date to a man waking up and deciding to become impressionist painter Edgar Degas. Sometimes irreverent, sometimes touching, sometimes serious, and sometimes ridiculous-David Ives's plays display the wide range of expression possible within the one-act form.